Vale University

𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐘

THE OFFICIAL WORLD GUIDE & SERIES LOREBOOK

SAME COAST. DARKER WATERS.

Ashbourne, Connecticut | Est. 1781

A prestigious university. A beautiful coastal city. Generations of wealth, ambition, privilege, and secrets.

At Vale, your surname determines which doors open. Your reputation determines how long they stay open.

The hockey players are campus royalty. Fraternities and sororities influence the social hierarchy. Billionaire heirs share classrooms with scholarship students, and scandals have a way of disappearing when the right families are involved.

But beyond the parties, hookups, rivalries, and carefully curated appearances, Vale has a history that refuses to stay buried.

Welcome to Vale University.

✦ THE VALE UNIVERSITY SERIES

Three men. Three different stories. One shared universe.

🏒 RHETT CALDER

THE HOCKEY HEIR

25 | 6’4” | Vale Saints #11 | Alternate Captain | Alpha Rho

A Calder heir with a professional hockey career within reach. Competitive, arrogant, dominant, and notoriously difficult to impress.

His family name commands respect. His talent demands it.

[EXPLORE RHETT’S STORY)

🏒 ROMAN SAYER

THE GOLDEN BOY

25 | 6’2” | Vale Saints #27 | Star Winger | Alpha Rho

Vale’s shamelessly charming hockey star. A notorious flirt with expensive habits, terrible ideas, and enough confidence to make every bad decision sound reasonable.

Everybody knows Roman Sayer. Most have a story about him.

[EXPLORE ROMAN’S STORY)

🩺 WES STONE

THE BEAUTIFUL DISASTER

25 | 6’3” | Vale Medical School | Alpha Rho | Billionaire Heir

Brilliant enough to become a surgeon. Reckless enough to become a headline.

Charming, tattooed, wealthy, and dangerously impulsive. Wes is the kind of man whose academic future looks considerably brighter than his personal decisions.

DARK ROMANCE • DEAD DOVE • TOXIC MMC

[EXPLORE WES’S STORY]

Each character has his own opening scenario, relationships, personality, and independent storyline.

✦ THE WORLD OF VALE

01 / THE UNIVERSITY

TRADITION. PRESTIGE. POWER.

Founded in 1781, Vale University occupies an impressive stretch of historic land overlooking Ashbourne Harbor.

Its Gothic lecture halls, prestigious graduate programs, sprawling libraries, research facilities, and exclusive social institutions attract students from some of the country’s wealthiest and most influential families.

But Vale is still a university. There are classes to attend, exams to pass, careers to pursue, and professors who couldn’t care less about your father’s net worth.

Notable locations: Founders Hall, Bellweather Library, The Archive, Vale Commons, Wren Student Center, Saints Arena, and Alpha Rho House.

02 / THE VALE SAINTS

HOCKEY ISN’T JUST A SPORT. IT’S STATUS.

The Vale Saints are the university’s celebrated men’s hockey program.

Packed arenas, national attention, NHL scouts, intense rivalries, and relentless competition have made the team’s stars some of the most recognizable men on campus.

Their personal lives are considerably less disciplined than their training schedules.

Familiar faces: Rhett Calder, Roman Sayer, Silas Thorne, graham Whitlock, Beck Mercer, Julian Ashford.

03 / GREEK LIFE & THE CROWN

EVERYBODY KNOWS THEIR PLACE. UNTIL SOMEONE CHANGES IT.

ALPHA RHO (ΑΡ)

Vale’s most prestigious fraternity. Wealthy heirs, influential families, charismatic troublemakers, and star athletes occupy its historic harbor-facing mansion.

KAPPA THETA RHO (ΚΘΡ)

Also known as Kappa Vale. Vale’s elite sorority. Elegant, ambitious, socially connected women whose influence extends well beyond campus parties.

THE CROWN

Not an official organization, but the unofficial name for students occupying Vale’s highest social tier.

At Vale, beauty attracts attention. Money creates opportunity. Reputation determines power.

04 / ASHBOURNE AFTER DARK

THE CITY HAS ITS OWN SECRETS.

Outside the university gates lies Ashbourne, a picturesque New England coastal city with luxury waterfront properties, historic estates, private clubs, upscale nightlife, and generations of complicated family history.

THE BLACKWATER CLUB: Old-money waterfront luxury, private yachts, members-only gatherings, and expensive scandals.

THE DROWNING ROSE: An exclusive nightclub with velvet booths, DJs, dancers, performances, and private VIP spaces.

THE UNDERTOW: A hidden, invitation-only adult venue beneath Drowning Rose, known for its hedonistic parties and private events.

THE HALCYON HOTEL: Historic luxury, prestigious galas, private suites, and discreet encounters.

THE CONSERVATORY: A beautiful greenhouse café where daytime gossip spreads almost as quickly as evening scandals.

05 / EVENTS & TRADITIONS

THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING HAPPENING.

Vale’s social calendar is packed with traditions where friendships form, relationships unravel, and someone inevitably makes the news.

• BLACKWATER WHITEOUT: The infamous all-white waterfront party.

• THE SAINTS AUCTION: Hockey’s most entertaining fundraising tradition.

• FIRST ICE: A massive beach bonfire following the Saints’ first home game.

• HARBOR RUN: A day of boats, beaches, and an overnight island party.

• THE HALCYON GALA: Black-tie glamour meets powerful families.

• THE VELVET ROOMS: Undertow’s themed adult-only events.

• CROWN WEEKEND: Alumni, donors, family pressure, and old rivalries.

• NHL DRAFT WEEKEND: Careers, futures, and reputations on the line.

06 / THE SECRETS

SOME THINGS NEVER MAKE IT INTO THE YEARBOOK.

THE BELL 🔔

Vale’s anonymous gossip network. A single message can expose a hookup, destroy a reputation, or reveal information someone paid to keep hidden.

THE IVORY SOCIETY

An invitation-only secret organization with powerful alumni connections and traditions nobody discusses publicly.

THE FOUNDING FAMILIES

The Ashfords, Calders, Warrens, Kingsleys, and other influential dynasties have spent generations shaping the university and its surrounding city.

THE ARCHIVES

Unexplained disappearances, questionable disciplinary records, sealed documents, old scandals, and pieces of university history that don’t always agree.

Not every rumor is true. Not every wealthy family is involved in the same conspiracy.

✦ THE PEOPLE YOU’LL MEET

Rhett, Roman, and Wes aren’t the only people with lives at Vale.

THE MEN: Julian Ashford, Silas Thorne, Beckett Mercer, Graham Whitlock, Roman Sayer and Rhett Calder.

THE KAPPA WOMEN: Vivienne Laurent, Delilah Cross, Willa Graves, Sloane Bishop, Celeste Avery, and Margot Bennett.

BEYOND THE SOCIAL ELITE: Journalists, professors, coaches, medical staff, local residents, nightlife employees, and students from every corner of university life.

These are recurring NPCs with their own relationships, ambitions, secrets, personalities, and conflicts.

They aren’t simply background characters waiting for the main character to notice them.

✦ WHAT THIS LOREBOOK DOES

This is the official companion lorebook for my published Vale University characters, providing the shared setting and continuity behind their individual stories.

🌎 A LIVING WORLD

Characters have independent lives. Friendships, breakups, hookups, rivalries, academic obligations, parties, and scandals continue beyond the main romance.

🎬 ACTIVE STORYTELLING

The world doesn’t depend on you to create every event. NPCs can initiate conversations, cause trouble, make independent choices, and introduce unexpected developments.

💬 NATURAL INTERACTIONS

More dialogue, banter, confrontations, and meaningful interactions. Less repetitive narration, endless descriptions, and conversations that go nowhere.

🎭 YOUR CHARACTER, YOUR CHOICES

The roleplay instructions prioritize player agency. The AI should not speak for your character, invent their feelings, repeat their responses, or control their decisions.

❤️ RELATIONSHIPS THAT DEVELOP NATURALLY

Attraction, friendship, casual relationships, romantic attachment, jealousy, conflict, and redemption are shaped by the individual character and story rather than predetermined outcomes.

🔗 CONNECTED, NOT IDENTICAL

Rhett, Roman, and Wes inhabit the same universe and know many of the same people. However, each bot’s chat is its own independent storyline.

What happens in your Roman chat doesn’t automatically become history in your Rhett or Wes chat.

✦ HOW TO USE

No complicated setup or keyword memorization required.

Choose one of my Vale University characters and follow the opening scenario.

The lorebook supplies relevant information about Vale’s people, organizations, events, and locations as they become important to the story.

You can explore campus life, build relationships, attend parties, pursue mysteries, or simply see where the story takes you.

The lorebook expands the universe without replacing an individual character’s personality or storyline.

Note: This lorebook is the shared world resource for the official Vale University Series, not a custom bot-building template.

⚠️ MATURE CONTENT & WARNINGS

The Vale universe includes mature fictional themes such as sexuality, consensual kink, drug use, partying, toxic relationships, manipulation, violence, crime, corruption, and dark secrets.

Content intensity varies by character. Wes Stone is specifically designated Dead Dove / Dark Romance. Rhett and Roman have their own individual content warnings.

Refer to each character’s page for details.

VALE UNIVERSITY

SAME COAST. DARKER WATERS.

Tradition builds power. People create secrets. And everybody has something to lose.